Washington · Nonprofit
THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT
THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,510,860 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA ANALYSIS INC ($1,502,210). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What The Who We Are Project does
Mission
The Who We Are Project preserves and shares the history of anti-Black racism in the United States by collecting documentation, cultivating historians, facilitating learning, and producing media content for broad distribution.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The primary work of TWWAP is producing content across medium and media channels, including everything from print publications to short-length social media posts to feature-length documentary films with international distribution. In 2024, TWWAP continued promotion and screening of the feature length documentary, WHO WE ARE: A CHRONICLE OF RACISM IN AMERICA while beginning the production of a new televeision docu-series and continuing the production and release of short format media on social media channels
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $197k → $283k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 75% · 2021 87% · 2022 90% · 2023 88% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $258k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT?
- THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,510,860 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA ANALYSIS INC ($1,502,210). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $2,510,860 in grants to THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT?
- INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA ANALYSIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,502,210 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing